If you are good, life is good.
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.
If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
By indignities men come to dignities.
The money men make lives after them.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettynever give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.
Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
If we don’t occupy ourself with everything, then peaceful mind will have nowhere to abide.
